So much so, the Californian automaker is keen to let everyone know that it will start production of its range of plug-in cars based on the technology found in the Fisker Karma, by 2013.

Talking with The Detroit News, Fisker spokesman Roger Ormisher reiterated that the majority of Fisker’s half a billion dollars of Department of Energy loans isn’t being spent on its 52 MPGe plug-in luxury hybrid.

Instead, the money has gone towards helping Fisker tool up a a former GM plant in Delaware, as well as develop the various body styles that it has promised Project Nina will offer.

First of these, a mid-size luxury sedan, will be expected to enter production before 2013, with full-scale production -- some 75,000 to 100,000 cars per year -- happening by mid 2013.